Whenever looking at videos of people performing chiptune live, most people have trippy, random visuals flashing behind them. I am aware that many people create these visuals through a circuit bent NES or other console. However, I'm having a hard time finding information on how people do things that involve strange animations being mixed together. So, what other methods exist for creating concert visuals?
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Madison, Alabama
An easy, ready-made way to do this is to use Lightwall. Its a NES program that lets you do funky patterned visuals you can control with a controller.
You can run the ROM in an emulator if you don't want to fool with a NES and a flashcart. I have a copy on my soft-modded Wii, which has an emulator on it. Works like a charm.
This is the thread about it: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/1714/ … m/page/22/
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IL, US
Most visuals aren't "random", and are being controlled by a real person more or less
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My rider is now the criterion version of repo man visuals.
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ohio gozaimasu
Glitchnes v0.1 & v0.2 are both very good for this kind of stuff
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IL, US
if you can post links to the videos you are most interested in, i can probably give you a far better answer as to what is going on hardware/software-wise
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Pittsburgh
I've never seen any information as to what is producing the visuals for anamanaguchi's show here:
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IL, US
my hunch would be that its a custom NES rom, best things to look into along those lines that are a little easier to get into are glitchnes, scrollnes, logones, NESflix, etc ... http://www.no-carrier.com/
no carrier has solid documentation on how to get your own graphics into the nes roms, which you can run off an emulator or using a powerpak/eeprom cart on the original hardware
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Pittsburgh
Looking at the video more closely, I noticed that there's a guy standing next to the projector holding an iPad (iPad isn't actually visible, but I was there and I'm remembering it more now). Any idea of some sort of iPad/other computer visualizer?
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IL, US
could just be using the ipad running some video mixing software or an NES emulator, which would really help create the clips themselves (only had 30 seconds of the video load for me so i cant say for certain).. either way, very NES-like visuals
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Look into the GlitchGrinder.
I helped the dude design a schematic ( that probably doesn't work ) but I can't seem to find it.
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Pittsburgh
MooseHead wrote:
Look into the GlitchGrinder.
I helped the dude design a schematic ( that probably doesn't work ) but I can't seem to find it.
Wow, if you find that schematic, I gotta see it. All searches I've done on it lead me to the creator's website, which does not seem to exist anymore.
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Tacoma, WA
OpenTZT is a pretty powerful VJ freeware. I use it for a bunch of stuff.